The Vine Trust started as a local community response to the famine in Ethiopia and Sudan in 1985. Churches in Bo'ness, Scotland felt compelled to do something. They established "Branches", a small gift shop, staffed by volunteers, whose profits continue to be distributed to local and international causes.

From these small beginnings has grown the realisation that ordinary people working together can effect significant change. We work in partnership with local people in other countries who have a vision to see their own communities transformed.